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REPORT  of  Committee  :
Miuute  of  Appointment  -  -  -  -  -  3
Changes  in  Membership  of  Committee  3
Functions  of  Committee  -  -  -  -  -  4
Meetings  of  Committee  and  of  Sub-Committees  -  -  -  -  4
Advertisement  of  Intelligence  Branch  at  Home  and  in  the  Colonies  -  4
Colonial  Representation  on  the  Committee  -----  -5
Officers  designated  by  Colonial  Governments  to  answer  Inquiries  -  -  -  5
Business  of  the  Intelligence  Branch  ’  -  -  -  -  -  5
“  Grant  in  Aid  ”  to  the  Committee  -------  7
Application  of  Funds  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  8
Board  of  Trade  Mission  to  South  Africa  ------  8
Appointment  of  Trade  Correspondents  in  South  Africa  -  -  8
Commercial  Missions  to  Siberia  and  Persia  ------  9
New  German  Customs  Tariff  -  -  -  -  -  -  10
New  Russian  and  proposed  new  Austro-Hungarian  Tariffs  -  -  .  -  11
Grant  to  Society  of  Comparative  Legislation  -  -  -  11
Conclusion  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -11

Appendices  :
A.—Copy  of  Notice  sent  to  Mayors  of  Boroughs,  Chambers  of  Commerce,  &amp;c.,  &amp;c.
respecting  the  establishment  of  the  Commercial  Intelligence  Branch  of  the
Board  of  Trade  -  -  -  .  -  -  13
B—Copy  of  Circular  sent  by  the  Colonial  Office  to  the  various  Colonial  Governments
on  the  same  subject  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  14
C.  —List  of  British  Commercial  Attaches  and  Commercial  Agents  in  Foreign  Countries,
and  of  the  Correspondents  of  the  Commercial  Intelligence  Branch  in  the  Colonies  16
D.  —Copy  of  Report  by  the  Committee  to  the  Board  of  Trade  respecting  the  German
Tariff  -  -  -  -  -  -  -18

E.—Copy  of  Report  by  the  Committee  to  the  Board  of  Trade  respecting  the  new
Russian  and  proposed  new  Austro  Hungarian  Customs  Tariffs  -  -  37